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IMPROVEMENTIN EMBALMING APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 74,085 dated February 29, 1876; application filed November 20, 1875. i

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE T. PARKER, of Cleveland, in: the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and Improved Erhbalming Apparatus ,and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and complete description thereof}.

reference being bad to the accompanying drawings makingpart of the same.

Figure 1 isa plan view of the embalming apparatus. Fig. 2 is a side view. Fig. 3 is a detached view of the cover or lid of the case.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

This invention is an apparatus for. conduct V ing the process of embalming bodies by ejecting the contents of the blood-vessels. and intestines, and injecting, by suitable means, antiseptic fluids into and through the arterial and venous channels of circulation, following the natural courses of the blood, and charging the stomach and intestines with the same,

. substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth. To this end recourse is bad to the following-described apparatus:

In the drawing, A represents a case or airchamber, whiehmay be constructed of wood or of other suitable material, the size-of which being according to the size-of the body to be placed therein for treatment. The shape of the case is not essential. Inone side, near the head of the case, is inserted a tube, B, in an airtight manner. To the inner. end of said tube is attached a rubber hose, 0, in the -end of which is inserted a T-shaped nozzle, D.

In the outer end of said. tube B is a stopcock, E, and attached tothe'end of the tube having its termination in a force-pump, L",

which is, or may be, like those in ordinary use. At the narrow end or foot of the case are 1nserted therein two'tubes, L M, made air-tight in their connection with the case. To the outer end ofeach of the tubes is attached a sition of the subject, one of the carotid arteries is laidbare, carefully dissecting the in.- teguments therefrom. The artery isthen lifted up..and a longitudinal incision made therein as low down as possible. A ligature is then thrown around above and below the incision, tying the upper one quite tight. ,In the incision thus made is introduced the nozzle or tube I, which may be detached from the hose for that purpose, and again attached to the hose when the subject is laid in the case. The jugular vein is next opened, in

which is inserted the T-shaped nozzle.D,

which may also be detached from the hose for that purpose, and again attached thereto when the subject is laid in the case.

The body, thus prepared, is now placed in the case, and the nozzles I and D respectively attached to the hose H O. The cover 0 of the case is now put onin an air-tight manner, and the hose F attached to the vessel F,,it' not previously done. Said vessel isput in connection with the exhaust-pump referred to by a hose, P. At this-stage of the process the outlet Q must be closed tight, thus making'the chamber or case as air-tight as is practicable. This adjustment and arrangement of the apparatus is for evacuating the veins and arteries and for charging the same with some antiseptic fluid, which for that purpose is placed in the jar E, Fig. 2. Now, on operating the eXhaust-pump O, and conjointly therewith the force-pump L, the contents of the arteries and veins will be drawn therel'rom through the nozzle D and hose F, and

deposited in the vessel F. Said vessel being air-tight and in connection with the pump by means of the hose P, and in open relation with the hose F by means of the vessel, it will be obvious that the contents of the veins and arteries will be subjected directly to the To prepare the subject for treatment,

exhaustivevpower of the pump 0, and the compulsive power of the pump L, which will evacuate the contents oil the arteries and veins, and deposit them in an air-tight vessel or receiver, F. During the operation of the force-pump an antiseptic fluid is drawn thereby from :the jar B, Fig. 2, (put in connection with said pump by means of the hose 8,) and forced into the arteries and veins as fast as they are emptied, thereby preventing them from a possible collapsion, which, however, is not likely to happen, as the air in the case is exhausted therefrom by the pump 0, through the hose N N, (during its operation in evacuating the b1ood-vessels,) thereby producing'a vacuum in the case so that the subject is relieved from atmospheric pressure, or so to a considerable extent. Wherethe arteries and veins have been emptied of theircontents and charged with the antiseptic fluid, as above described, the intestines and stomach are to be treated in a similar manner.

To this end the nozzles I D are detached 1 from the body, and the stop cocks J and E closed. The nozzle D may be removed from the case, whereas the nozzle 1 is inserted in the esophagus of the subject, and the tube or nozzle A, Fig. 1, is introduced in the anus. The outer end of the hose Q, (to which this nozzle is attached,) terminates in an airtight receiver or vessel, R, from which proceeds a hose, B, Fig. 2, the end of which aided by the compulsive energy of the force pump, evacuates them into the receiving-vessel R, in which they are retained during the operation of the pump, the discharged matter not being able to pass beyond the vessel into the exhaust-pump. As the hose Q and the hose B are not connected to eachother directly, communication exists between them only through the medium of the vessel in which they both terminate, as do the hose F and P in the, vesselF, above described. As

The stop-cock J is now opened and fast as the matter is drawn from the stomach and viscera, it is followed by the injection of the contents of the jar R, the antiseptic fluid taking the place of the discharging matter, filling the stomach andintestiues to completion, during which operation the case is 'again exhausted of air and gases from the body through the hose N N, which are continued in connection with the case and exhaust-pump.

The above second treatment of the body completes the process of embalming. The apparatus is'now detached and the body removed for final disposal. It is optional as to whether the bowels are first treated or the arteries and veins; in either case the treatment does not materially change.

111 some instances it might be advisable to first completely evacuate the stomach and bowelsand cleanse them by an injection of water before charging them with the antiseptic fluid, in which event one pump may be sufiicient for that purpose; if not, both are to cooperate to that end, as above described. In the event water or other fluid matter or waste may have accumulatedin the case, it can be drawn therefrom through the orifice towhich the hoseQ is attached by means of athimbleor nipple. This can be easily done by detaching the hose from the thimble or nipple. Said thimble or nipple 'is provided with a cap for closing the orifice during the evacuation of the arteries and veins I What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The tubes G and B, stop-cocks J and E, hose H and'G, and nozzles I and D, in combination with the case or air-chamber A, in the manner substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The air-tight receiver or vessel F, hose F and P, in combination with the case or airchamber A, and exhaust-pump O, in the manner as described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. The hose Q, and nozzle A, and hose B, in combination with the case or air-chamber A, receiver R, and exhaust-pump O, in the manner substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

Witnesses:

- J. H. BURRIDGE, JAMES BARNES.

GEORGE 'r. PARKER. 

